Your Hardships and Challenges in Life Are the Shechina in Disguise

Leading before the Yidden in the Midbar was the עָ נָן (special cloud) which represented the Shechina. But doesn’t a cloud symbolize darkness (dirty and cloudy)? We can suggest because your darkness in your life is your challenges, and those hardships are the things that lead you to get places and to grow. Your challenges are going to help you, and if you aim at overcoming them, then you will get places. R’ Chatzkel Levenstein Zatzal said: “Those who struggle with their Yetzer Hara are Gedolim, even if they are on a lower Madrega than those who don’t struggle, and will get much more Sachar (so stop kvetching, and stop calling yourself a Rasha!)”